Soon it was time for dinner, Ruan Liangdi and I served the queen for dinner, and the queen asked us to sit down together.

At the end of the meal, the queen smiled and said: "Today, the Queen Mother also mentioned that Xiaoguan's painting skills are very good, and the "Winter and Spring Scene" is even more rare to be clever in conception and atmospheric. ”

I smiled and said a few words of modesty.

It seems that the Queen Mother praised me for taking the initiative to back down.

Turned his head and instructed Ye Shangyi: "You follow Zhao Xun to the warehouse behind me, find out the "Luochuan Goddess Picture", talk to Zhao Xun well, if you like it, give it to her." ”

After I got up and said goodbye to the queen, I followed Ye Shangyi to the side hall at the back.

Ye Shangyi walked among the rows of wooden frames while talking: "The queen asked the old slave to talk to Zhao Xun well, she is sympathetic to the old slave." Niangniang knew that the old slave was a chattering character. I followed Niangniang to the Queen Mother's palace, and I must want to find someone to talk to. ”

Only then did I understand that the queen wanted Ye Shangyi to tell me about the situation in the queen mother's palace by taking the painting.

I was grateful in my heart, but I didn't show it on my face, but smiled: "That's a coincidence, Xiaoguan loves to listen to people talk the most." ”

Ye Shangyi said with a smile: "The Queen Mother has always spoken to the Queen Mother smoothly and directly, as soon as the Queen Mother sat down, the Queen Mother asked about Qu Zhaoxun and praised a few words of your painting and knowledge." The queen mother naturally pushed the boat down the river and said that you took the initiative not to be canonized. ”

Ye Shangyi stopped in front of a row of shelves, reached out and took out a scroll, and said, "This scroll should be." After a short paragraph, he was disappointed: "No. Alas, I'm old, I love to nag, and I forget things. I remember it was on the eleventh row of shelves in this storeroom. Why did you get it wrong again?"

I listened with a smile.

The Queen Mother was very surprised at the time, and after being silent for a while, she said: This pattern is really immediate. Niangniang didn't say much about you, only said that everyone in Beijing knew that Miss Wu had been pampered since she was a child, and she was worried that the six princes would be suppressed and suffer losses in the future. When the martial lady gets married, she still has to ask the queen mother to teach her some women's virtues. ”

Ye Shangyi smiled at me and said, "The Queen Mother naturally agreed." During this period, the queen mother opened the dim sum and presented it to the queen mother. The Queen Mother loves it very much, especially the name 'Bamboo Dew Dripping Qingxiang'. said, 'This Qu Zhaoxun is very rare'!"

I smiled and said, "It's rare or not, it's all thanks to the teachings of the queen mother." ”

Ye Shangyi took half a step back and opened another scroll on the same row of shelves that she had just taken wrong: "Found it!"

I bowed solemnly: "Thank you! ”

Ye Shangyi bowed her head and returned the salute, and said with a smile: "Don't dare to be." ”

**********

A few days passed, but he did not see Shengyao for a long time, nor did he hear any news of the decree of the crown prince.

This kind of will, which has been agreed by the emperor and the province of Shangshu and drawn up by the province of Zhongshu, is said to be just a matter of review, how can it be delayed for a few days.

I hesitated, ready to ask the Queen. But I have never found a suitable opportunity to bring up this sensitive topic with the queen alone.

In the afternoon of this day, Ruan Liangdi and I were talking with each other in the queen's inner hall. The queen's illness gradually improved, and her complexion became ruddy.

Ruan Liangdi said with a smile: "It seems that this white imperial doctor's medical skills are really good. ”

The queen bowed: "Your Majesty heard that there has also been some improvement." ”

Outside the hall, a famous chamberlain came in: "Yu Niangniang, the white imperial doctor has come to ask for a pulse." ”

The queen smiled: "This is really unthinkable, just think about it." Come in, please. ”

The chamberlain hurriedly responded, and after a while, he invited Imperial Doctor Bai in.

I looked up, and sure enough, it was the young doctor who bluntly helped me in the Empress Dowager's palace and later had a relationship on the Baqiao.

Imperial Physician Bai approached and saluted the Queen Mother: "Weichen Bai Yubing has seen the Queen Mother!"

After a slight pause, Fu saluted Ruan Liangdi and me again: "I have seen Liangdi and Zhaoxun. ”

Bai Yu Bing? Couldn't the summer worm talk about Bing?

didn't make a sound at the moment, and only stepped aside with Ruan Liangdi and asked him to diagnose the queen's pulse.

"Niangniang's illness has improved, the original prescription does not need to be taken anymore, Weichen will prescribe a recuperation prescription for Niangniang, and take a few days to stabilize one or two. ”

The queen smiled: "The white lady is good at healing. ”

Bai Yubing smiled and bowed and said, "Xie Niangniang." Got up to pack up the medical box, and looked at Ruan Liangdi and me a few times as if unintentionally. Turning to the queen, he said, "The weather has been extremely hot recently, and it is most likely to stagnate dampness and poison in the body. If the damp poison is retained, the meridians will not be passed, and if it is not passed, all kinds of diseases will occur. Weichen made some pills and asked Niangniang and the two palace concubines to take one pill when they were okay to detoxify and detoxify. ”

As he spoke, he took out three small jade bottles, first presented them to the queen, put them on the table in front of the queen, and then put one bottle on the small table next to me and Ruan Liangdi.

The queen couldn't stop laughing: "Don't you recognize the two of them? Where is the palace concubine, this is Liangdi and Zhaoxun of King Xiao's Mansion." ”

Bai Yubing looked embarrassed on his face, and bent down in fear: "Niang Niang forgive your sins." ”

The queen waved her hand: "Those who don't know are not guilty." Imperial Physician Bai doesn't have to be like this. ”

Bai Yubing gave a gift and retired.

The moment he turned around, his gaze swept over my face, and when he saw me looking at him, he looked at the medicine bottle again.

I quietly continued to laugh in front of the queen for a cup of tea, and then got up and retired.

When he returned to his residence, he instructed Zhu'er: "Get up early in the morning, this time I am a little tired, I will go to the couch to take a nap." Call me before dinner. ”

Jewel should be down.

Closing the door, I took out the jade bottle.

Bai Yubing's hint when he left was very obvious.

I plucked a tourmaline flower hairpin from my head and picked the sealing wax off the bottle. Flipping the bottle and pouring out the pill in the palm of his hand—only one pill, only a little larger than a normal pill.

What Bai Yubing said at the time was: Take one when you're fine.

Then there should be more than one in the bottle.

I only have one in this bottle - this one must be different.

I broke the pill.

Sure enough, there was a crumpled note in it.

Unfolded to see, it was Yao Huatang.

I was a little relieved and read it carefully.

But I stood up suddenly, and after a while, I sat down slowly.

Yao Huatang said: Shengyao somehow asked the province not to issue that clear decree for the time being. He asked Sheng Yao anxiously, and Sheng Yao only said that he was upset and had to think about it. But this matter of establishing a reserve will be more risky if it drags on for a moment. He thought about it, Sheng Yao must not be troubled by becoming a prince. The only possibility is to be dissatisfied with the crown princess in the will. Now a few days have passed, and Sheng Yao still hasn't made up his mind. I'm afraid that something will change later. As a last resort, I took the liberty of asking me to help him persuade Shengyao as soon as possible, so that he could issue a clear decree and decide a major event as soon as possible.

I have mixed feelings in my heart.

Reaching out and pouring himself a cup of hot tea, he didn't notice that the tea had spilled better.

Drink it slowly, one by one.